Annoy User

[swordsman1]

If you set it to 100% of the time, you might as well just ban them and save yourself the system performance hit.

But that is the beauty of Annoy User. You can quietly get rid of unwanted users without banning them and really annoying them with all the repercussions that brings. Eg.  them dissing you on other forums, deliberately causing trouble by re-registering, starting DoS attacks, their fans mounting bring back xxxxx campaigns, etc, etc.

But they are not going to go unless the forum appears broken and is painful for them to use, and that means having high figures. But if they then browse the forum whilst logged out (as many members do), then they will immediately spot that there is nothing really wrong with the forum and realise they are the victim of a dirty trick and go on to cause all sorts of trouble for you.

[Arantor]

-sigh- It works perfectly for the task for which it was designed. I *deliberately by design* did not include IP address.

[swordsman1]

....which is to quietly encourage troublemakers to leave by making them think there is a problem with the forum, is it not?

I have a big forum with 7 annoyed users and they are still with me weeks later. The reason is because the figures are set too low, but any higher and they will realise that when they log out, there is really no problem at all with the forum and worse, know that I have been playing a 'dirty trick' on them.

[Arantor]

Yes, and on the forum for which I wrote it, it did the job perfectly. Thus it does precisely what I made it to do, and any more than that is frankly a bonus. It's not my fault that my needs differed to yours and that I wasn't prepared to write it to meet your needs... Maybe those who look after it now might bother to do so, though.

[ACAMS]

HAHAHA.......I like this, I didn't think I would, but I do!




THANKS!

[Sabre™]

No(t yet). ....

Ok cool
I'm spewing I lost all of the mods Arantor made, especially the mp3 attachment mod I requested! lol
I left them on a server, forgot about them, and cleared the server
That's the way it goes ... as they say.

[live627]

especially the mp3 attachment mod I requested! lol

Some of Arantor's mod are available to purchase on my site, including that one http://dev.live627.com/index.php?action=mods#27 (He gave them to me to use after he closed his site)

[Sabre™]

Oh yeah nice.
I was lucky enough to have a copy given to me.
Cheers

[live627]

http://dev.live627.com/index.php?action=mods#30

1.4 released with support for adding IP addresses to annoy! The entire procedure to annoy a user has not changed; once you choose to annoy a particular user, their IP address gets added to the list.

So what happens if their address changes because their DHCP server updated?
Because SMF refreshes a member's IP once they login, the annoy script detects that and refreshes its data accordingly.

What about performance? The IP lookup generates an extra query.
It's cached. The cache is valid for one hour and is based on the IP being called. Also, the cache is flushed when a user is added or removed from the annoy list.

[swordsman1]

Bravo!!!!   

[Sabre™]

Hi Live.
I've been asked to share the edits I made to get the original package to work in RC5, but I thought I'd better ask you first, as you have your paid version which does the same and more.

[live627]

Back a page or two, Spoogs posted what edits he did for RC4 compatibility. I'm quite sure they work on RC5 and even final, unless he goofed something up badly, which I'm inclined to think not.http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=343810.msg2912206#msg2912206 (Failed edits only)

[Sabre™]

Oh yep, I didn't look back to have a look.
Cool, now peeps will see the link to the edits.
Cheers

[studiowi33]

In your UltimateProfile.template.php search for

Thanks Sabre for BOTH posts regarding how to make this work. After editing the 5 files, it works on my 2.0 (final) AND with UP.
(On the POD theme!)

-s.w

[jsamples]

   
What happened to the smf 1.x.x version of "Annoy User" Mod ?

I see its been ported to smf 2.0 but I can't find the older version. Can I please d/l the package from someone?

Thanks

[live627]

http://livemods.net/index.php?action=mods#30

[wynnyelle]

Does this work with IPs only? Like, it would allow it to do that even if an annoying user is logged out?

[live627]

Yes it does. The paid version, that is.

[wynnyelle]

Thanks for letting me know. What does the paid cost?

[live627]

$20 with a full year of support and updates included.